Year 2 Blog Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 20th Jan 2026 @ 10:26am

• Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (30.01.26):

blue      blew       new    knew    night    knight   see    sea    there   their

Sumdog: Complete the place value and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in twos to 100.

You could say them out loud or write the numbers down. Look at the pattern 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8. What do you notice?

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables and doubling and halving.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We learnt how to use speech marks. We wrote about our favourite part of the story.

SPaG

We have been learning the rules about homophones. Wo which are sound the same but have different spellings.

Maths

We started our new leaning on place value.

We spent time adding and taking 10 from multiples of ten, but also from other 1-digit/2-digit numbers. For example, 50+10= or 34+10=

We have also been ordering groups of numbers and using the tens digit to help work out the largest or smallest numbers.

We learnt that if the tens digit is the same, we then look at the ones digit to help us decide.

Science

We observed and drew pictures of different bulbs. We are going to plant them next week and watch them grow.

PSHE

We have moved on to the Celebrate section of My Happy Mind which is all about our character strengths and spotting them in other people.

RE

The children have been learning about Jesus' Baptism.

We have also made mobiles about wrong and right choices and written lovely sorry prayers.

P.E

During gymnastics sessions, the children have been performing jumps, rolls and travelling. They have made up their own sequences with a clear start/finish and smooth movements between.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Ella

Super Learner - Hannah

Superstar Writer - April

Bookworms - Genieveve,Harry and Zac who have read 96 books since September and filled their bookmarks.

Mathematician - Lara

Special Mentions - Zac and Jessie H. for careful sketching in art.

-Izzy and Bobby for being kind and thoughtful friends.

-Luca  for great reading and discussion about the story with Mrs Nowak.